Search for dissertations about: "residual disability"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 24 swedish dissertations containing the words residual disability.

  2. 1. Insurances against job loss and disability : Private and public interventions and their effects on job search and labor supply

    Author : Josefine Andersson; Anders Forslund; Stefan Eriksson; Michael Rosholm; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Employment Security Agreements; job search assistance; job loss; notification; lump-sum severance grant; liquidity effect; disability insurance; financial incentives; continuous deduction; regression discontinuity design; propensity score matching; nearest neighbor matching; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Essay I: Employment Security Agreements, which are elements of Swedish collective agreements, offer a unique opportunity to study very early job search counselling of displaced workers. These agreements provide individual job search assistance to workers who are dismissed due to redundancy, often as early as during the period of notice. READ MORE

  4. 2. Guillain-Barré syndrome : disability, quality of life, illness experiences and use of healthcare

    Author : Anette Forsberg; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Guillain-Barré syndrome; qualitative research; illness experience; disability; health-related quality of life; healthcare; patient satisfaction; caregivers;

    Abstract : Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to provide a comprehensive description of how individuals may be affected by GuillainBarré syndrome (GBS), in terms of on body function, activity, and participation as well as on healthrelated quality of fife, and describe changes over time during the first 2 years after onset. Other aims were to describe the use of healthcare and patient satisfaction, and to report on the subjective experiences of failing ill with GBS. READ MORE

  5. 3. Upper extremity impairments in type 1 diabetes in comparison to matched controls without diabetes : associations to the IGF-system, metabolic factors, disability and quality of life

    Author : Kerstin Gutefeldt; Anna Spångeus; Kerstin Brismar; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES;

    Abstract : Compared with the general population, people with type 1 diabetes (T1D) more often exhibit pathological alterations in musculoskeletal tissue (impairments). Some of these impairments involve the upper extremities, i.e., the shoulders, hands, and fingers. READ MORE

  6. 4. Internet Interventions for Hearing Loss : Examing rehabilitation, self-report measures and internet use for hearing-aid users

    Author : Elisabet Sundewall Thorén; Thomas Lunner; Gerhard Andersson; Marie Öberg; Jean-Pierre Gagné; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : Counseling; hearing loss; hearing aids; rehabilitation of people with hearing loss; internet; outcome assessment; hearing aid satisfaction;

    Abstract : In the future, audiological rehabilitation of adults with hearing loss will be more available, personalized and thorough due to the possibilities offered by the internet. By using the internet as a platform it is also possible to perform the process of rehabilitation in a cost-effective way. READ MORE

  7. 5. Distal Radius Fractures. Outcome and New Methods of Surgical Treatment

    Author : Marcus Landgren; Lund Ortopedi; []
    Keywords : Distal radius fracture; surgical treatment; non-surgical treatment; outcome; residual disability;

    Abstract : Handledsbrott är den vanligaste frakturen på en akutmottagning. De yngre vuxna patienterna är jämnt fördelade mellan könen men de äldre har en övervikt av kvinnor. Hos de äldre men även i medelåldern uppstår frakturen företrädesvis i ett skelett med olika grad av benskörhet. READ MORE